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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Life

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

Life

Music

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

George Santayana

Life

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Gus Van Sant

Life

Boredom

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.